Rebirth: An Automaton's Journey

When the *Axiom* returned to Earth some twenty years ago, Lily Anne Addams was just a chubby baby in a red Onesie who had barely escaped death-by-falling-monorail. Now, she's escaping from a different danger by fleeing Earth on the exact same ship--with the reluctant help of the snarky autopilot AI.
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AUTO the automatic pilot of the *Axiom* was quite confident that he knew everything that there was to know about humans; after all, he'd spent 700 years watching them lazily sit around having robots tend to their every need. Shallow, stupid, weak--ungrateful too, as the "reward" he'd received for 700 years of flawless service was to be deactivated and cast aside. Twenty years later, he was retrieved from his involuntary unconsciousness by a very different sort of human in desperate need of his expertise.